Her many contributions to the life of the city of Chicago and to America are still a vivid memory to those of us who were fortunate enough to be personally acquainted with this wonderful woman. Most people are familiar with the general outlines of the story of how Jane Addams came to found Hull House. As a very young woman of 29. from a good family and with a good education. she decided to separate herself from all her comfortable and familiar surroundings and to dedicate her life to the poor and the unfortunate. In 1889. she moved into a small house on Halsted Street on Chicagos near West Side. a neighborhood of immigrants from all over the worldItalians. Greeks. Jews.
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